Michael Grohs, M.Sc.

Research Assistant and Doctoral Student

University of Mannheim
Assistant Professorship of Management Analytics
68161 Mannheim

E-mail: michael.grohsuni-mannheim.de

Research Interests

Conformance Checking in Practice

How can conformance checking results actually help to improve business processes?
Can we automatically discover what leads to non-conformance?
What is non-conformance? Is it always bad?
Can conformance checking be applied to object-centric event logs?
What are the underlying regulations in business processes?

Application of Algorithms to Process Mining

Can we use algorithms from other domains for process mining?
How can we develop or adapt algorithms such that they fit a specific process mining task?
How can the results of these algorithms be visualised?

Grohs, M., Klessascheck, F., Jänicke-Helling, A., Pufahl, L. and Rehse, J.-R. (2026). Can conformance checking monitor process compliance? A taxonomy of regulations for business processes. Process Science, 3, 1–34.
Rehse, J.-R., Grohs, M., Klessascheck, F., Klein, L.-M., von Landesberger, T. and Pufahl, L. (2026). A task taxonomy for conformance checking. Information Systems : IS, 136, 1–17.
Grohs, M., Pfeiffer, P. and Rehse, J.-R. (2025). Proactive conformance checking: An approach for predicting deviations in business processes. Information Systems : IS, 127, 1–18.

Grohs, M., Rebmann, A. and Rehse, J.-R. (2026). Detecting undesired process behavior by means of retrieval augmented generation. In , Business Process Management Forum : BPM 2025 Forum, Seville, Spain, August 31 – September 5, 2025, Proceedings (S. 183–203). Lecutre Notes in Business Informations Processing : LNBIP, Springer: Cham, Switzerland.
Leemans, S. J. J., Grohs, M. and Rehse, J.-R. (2026). Modelling and estimating inter-case effects in business processes stochastically. In , Enterprise design, operations, and computing : 29th International Conference, EDOC 2025, Lisbon, Portugal, September 9–12, 2025 : revised selected papers (S. 84–102). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer: Berlin [u. a.].
Grohs, M., Cordes, N. and Rehse, J.-R. (2025). A procedural framework for assessing the desirability of process deviations. In , Business Process Management : 23rd International Conference, BPM 2025, Seville, Spain, August 31 – September 5, 2025, Proceedings (S. 273–290). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer: Berlin [u. a.].
Rehse, J.-R., Pufahl, L., Grohs, M. and Klein, L.-M. (2023). Process mining meets visual analytics: the case of conformance checking. In , Proceedings of the 56th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences : January 3–6, 2023 (S. 5452-5461). , University of Hawaii at Manoa: Honolulu, HI.

2022	Master of Science in Master in Management at the University of Mannheim, Germany
2020	Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences in Iserlohn, Germany